ALBUM: Austin Stambaugh & the Electric Weepers - Way Down Here On Earth (Cassette + DL Card)

The electric outfit for Ohio balladeer Austin Stambaugh, the band is the premier model for the obscure country sound that stems from the Cleveland Ohio region. Elusive and shadowy, heavy and aloof, the band revolves around blues shuffles, train beats, and 6/8 waltzes that Stambaugh laments over with tenor voicings and blue collar prose. Recorded live to tape in the winter of '23, in a living room in Akron, OH, their debut document Way Down Here On Earth is released to Nashville's independent punk label AntiCorporate Music.       Ohio Balladeer & Story Writer: Austin Stambaugh, is enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen. A modern pioneer of folk storytelling, his work has been called “Timeless and nuanced,” by Lilly Hiatt who wrote, “enjoy with the lights low.” Folk singer Tim Easton wrote, “Austin Stambaugh is the best flatpicking songwriter you’ve never heard of, and I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in my Redwing boots and say it.”       Stambaugh’s a